1/ I'll explain exactly how this happened because I'm the person at Forbes who calculates these numbers.
This is going to take some unraveling, but here's a spoiler: The president's answer here is nonsense.
@A_Colker@reggiebblue@DavidSacks He was obviously somehow on the Kremlin payroll. One rumour I heard was that he laundered Russian money in Silicon Valley.
.@Jason polls heading into the midterms and post-midterm exit polls show corruption is a top concern for Americans… and your solution is for Trump to mass preemptively pardon himself, his family, and his admin to avoid accountability?
I suspect that’ll just piss voters off more
Even if Russell Brand wasn't guilty of r*pe, I'd still be happy with his conviction and whatever sentence he gets on the grounds of it being justice for his childhood dog.
I mean, he wrote the below extract himself. As if he thought people would think: "Oh that's mean, but what a refreshingly honest chap he is!"
If he could do this to a defenceless animal and laugh about it years later, it tells you a lot about his treatment of those around him who he saw as vulnerable.
What an evil prick. Fuck him.
@TeaPainUSA He gave up on Trump back in 2021/2 and supported DeSantis. He said stuff about Trump being a liar, and maybe the reason he was being prosecuted was because he's guilty, not because he was being targeted. You can't un-realize that kind of stuff.
@bryanbehar He named his youngest child 'Hawthorne Hayes'. Fourteen words, initials 'HH'. This is related to the 14/88 code use by neo-Nazis.
https://t.co/QpztOhK3lu
Applebaum: Most Americans don't understand that Trump has prolonged war in Ukraine.
He made business deals with the Russians, refused to criticize them and looked away when they hit Ukrainians.
That gave Russia the inspiration to keep going. 1/
Relations between Russia and the West will never be the same again — Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski
According to Sikorski, the West has finally realized that Poland was right in its assessment of Putin.
“Things will never go back to the way they were before the war,” the minister said.
Sikorski believes that Russia’s problem goes far deeper than Putin alone.
“This is a civilizational problem rooted in the country’s political culture. Mongol, then Tsarist, and later Bolshevik traditions have been perpetuated one after another. There have been attempts to start over and build something fundamentally new, but they have failed.”
From the beginning of the Trump era, the greatest threat to conservatism was always from the Trump right, not the woke left. The conservatives who ignored Trump or minimized him to join with MAGA to wage war on the left were partners in their own demise.
@jimstewartson He named his youngest child 'Hawthorne Hayes'. Fourteen letters, initials HH. Related to the 14/88 code used by neo-Nazis which refers to the 'Fourteen Words' and 'Heil Hitler'.
When his rich father lost his job, teenage psychopath Stephen Miller had to go to public high school in Santa Monica with Black & brown people.
This made him so angry he consumed racist literature & devoted himself to impersonating Joseph Goebbels.
Racism is his religion and now he has a demented, raging, dead-end president to manipulate. He will traumatize, deport & kill as many minorities as he can over the next two years. He feels he is destined for the role of making America a white nation.
Congress must wage full scale war on this particular psychopath. He cannot have a moment’s rest. He must be put on defense with every tool available. Everything the regime must be blocked. No money should flow. There are no limits to his sadism and he must not be provided with oxygen.
Russia's African troll farms increasingly targeting Poland, already with a campaign to blame Ukraine for the mass shooting in Krakow, posting in Polish and English.
Core narratives - Tusk is bad, Germany is the enemy, Ukraine evil.
1/It’s clear that Russia has gained strategic control of the US. Trump and Vance are fully in their grasp, and Massie/MTG/Carlson are following along with Khanna, Luna, and others as backstops. Most worrisome, Jeffries and Schumer display alarmingly poor judgment as well…
@GregoryKBovino@RichardHanania Not a denial. So maybe a tacit confirmation? The coat was a bit of a giveaway.
Most people don't agree with you. Many Trump voters were shocked to see neighbours who'd been working and paying taxes for decades taken into ICE custody. It's the maknreason your party got smashed.
@catturd2 'Patriots in control' is one of the main QAnon slogals. Kirill Dmitriev replied with another of them 'WWG1WGA'.
Weren't some Russian agents arrested in Germany found to have Pete's mobile number in their phones.
@Russ_Nunn@FlippersUpNow I think most people now think it was run by the network centred around Mike Flynn, who himself is likely a Russia asset. He's connected to people like Posobiec who also pushed it, as well as Pizzagate, another Russian linked operation.
Are you fucking kidding us?
The US Secretary of Defense posts “Patriots in control,” a notorious QAnon slogan. THREE MINUTES later, Putin's envoy Kirill Dmitriev responds with “WWG1WGA,” another QAnon cult mantra.
What the actual fuck is this? A coordinated trolling operation? A joint US-Russian QAnon convention? Or have the lunatics finally taken over both asylums?
These people are running two nuclear powers, for fuck's sake.